In this article, we integrate cultural evolutionary theory with empirical research from developmental psychology, anthropology, and primatology to explore the role of peer learning in development complex instrumental skills behavioral norms. We show that imitation, contingent teaching, generative collaboration, selective copying contribute domain-specific transmission knowledge between peers. S...

PURPOSE The purpose of this project was to simulate development of a community oral health plan using technology-based tools at the students' disposal. The specific research questions were: Will students use the Internet to identify community oral health issues and develop solutions to address the issues? Will blogs be a good tool to discuss and engage students in conversation with each other a...

Knowledge, cognitive skill and metacognition are often touted as the key dimensions of professional competence. This paper will report on research investigating the impact of reciprocal peer coaching on the development of metacognition, critical thinking and constructivist learning in post graduate business students at the Graduate School of Business, Curtin University of Technology. The resear...

Background: Peer education is one of the active teaching methods and is rarely used in clinical settings, especially in nursing. Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the effects of Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) on learning the principles of vaccination in nursing students. Methods: This quasi-experimental study was performed on 79 (intervention group n=43, control group n=36) nursing st...

Peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet is one of the greatest threats to digital data. It has become a common tool for performing lot malicious activities such as DDoS attacks, phishing spreading spam, identity theft, ransomware, extortion attack, and many other fraudulent activities. P2P botnets are very resilient stealthy keep mutating evade security mechanisms. Therefore, it necessary identify detect flo...

With the rapid development of massive open online courses, peer assessment has played an important role in promoting social learning. According to social learning theory, peer assessment in online courses provides students a chance to learn from each other when they review other students’ submissions, which motivates their participation in online social learning. However, existing peer assessme...

Peer assessment is a special form of collaborative learning, in which peer students learn through assessing others‟ work. Recently, the design of collaboration scripts is a new focus area within the CSCL community. In this paper, we present a method based on open e-learning standards to script peer assessment processes. A standard-compatible tool can help users to script various forms of peer a...